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UK and EU product liability, safety, corrective actions and recall: practitioner resources on regimes, market surveillance, standards, conformity marking and labelling, with Northern Ireland divergence and key reforms 2024–2026

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Product liability, safety and corrective actions & recall—key resources

This Practice Note gathers the principal resources on product liability, product safety and product corrective actions & recall. It explains the UK position, signposts EU materials to indicate where UK law originates from EU law (assimilated law), identifies post-Brexit divergence between UK and EU regimes, and describes the hybrid arrangement in Northern Ireland.

  • product liability
  • product safety
  • product corrective actions
  • product recall
  • other statutory safety controls
  • market surveillance
  • standards
  • conformity marking
  • labelling

For a high-level comparison of UK and EU product regulation, see Practice Note: Product regulation—UK/EU comparison.

Assimilated law is the term for retained EU law (REUL) that remains in force after the end of 2023. Reclassification of REUL as assimilated law marks a change to its status and treatment under UK law, in that it is generally read by reference to ordinary domestic law and principles. From 1 January 2024, REUL is ‘assimilated’ into domestic law as EU-derived interpretive effects are generally removed (eg supremacy of EU law, directly effective...

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